Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes about Honesty

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An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan∣tum of congruities and incongruities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Honesty, Men, Self

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Honesty, Delay, Today

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Honesty, Men, Air

"Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, (p. 290), 1862.

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Honesty, Knavery, Knaves

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.